A photograph exists as a sort of fiction: that of a
two dimensional representation of what exists in
three. This series of images, taken in Tokyo and
Kyoto, portrays varying combinations of subject
matter, designed in shifting dimensionalities
that force the viewer into a kind of perceptual
uncertainty. They are part of a much larger
piece, comprised of 49 such images, mounted in
another grid of seven images across over seven
images high.
As an artist working with lens-based imagery, L Bahr’s stated intention is “to disrupt ingrained habits of perception by questioning the nature of the photographic object itself.”
Though the images Bahr creates typically bear some vestige of respresentation, they all, in varying ways, deliberately misconstrue and negate the traditional view that photography is bound exclusively to representation, calling basic presumptions into question—the relativity of dimensional parameters, for example, or the notion that photographs are, of necessity, bound by any narrative drive.
Thank you so much!
Awards 2017
Tokyo International Foto Award: GOLD (fine art book)
“Contemplating the Grid, Dimensional Anomalies”
Tokyo International Foto Award: BRONZE (fine art-collage)
“Kimono”
Prix De La Photographie Paris: H.Mention (fine art book)
“Contemplating the Grid, Dimensional Anomalies”
Prix De La Photographie Paris: H.Mention (fine art series)
“Uno Station, Tamano Japan”
Prix De La Photographie Paris: H.Mention (fine art-collage)
”Kimono”
Prix De la Photographie Paris: H.Mention (fine art-collage)
”Architectural Reconstruction, Tokyo Japan”
Fine Art Photography Awards: 2H.Mentions (fine art/open)
”Sakyo-Ku Graveyard, Ad Astra, Kyoto Japan”
Fine Art Photography Awards: 2H.Mentions (abstract/conceptual “Contemplating the Grid, Dimensional Anomalies”
Fine Art Photography Awards: H.Mention (fine art-collage)
”Kimono”
Fine Art Photography Awards: H.Mention (photomanipulation)
“Refuge, Homage to Malevich”
ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA (group show)
”Refuge, Homage to Malevich”
2018
Tokyo International Foto Award:H.Mention (fine art series)
”Sakyo-Ku Graveyard, Ad Astra, Kyoto Japan”
All About Photo Magazine, ‘Light’: Finalist
”Spirit Atlas", Cairo Egypt”
